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The film” Children of Heaven” shows people a totally different kind of life. The film follows the main characters Ali and his little sister Zahra, who are born in a poor family in Iran. It shocks many students who first watch this movie. In China there are many families who are very poor, especially those…

Jubilee Project in partnership with Pastor Francis Chan recently made an extremely touching short film titled “Blind Devotion,” a masterpiece about unconditional love. The story goes when a devoted wife and her loving husband faced the biggest dilemma in their lives, which will put their commitment as a couple to an ultimate test. The double-pun…

If you ever came across a man with the name Orpheus you would assume that his wife would be Eurydice? A vast majority of people would agree because of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice which was composed thousands of years ago. Marcel Camus tries to recreate the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in his…

In the film, “Almos’ A Man,” Dave is a young boy who works as a farm hand who feels like he is treated like a boy but he feels like he should be treated like a man. He even quips to his mother that she often tells him “he is almos’ a man now,” during…

When I watched the film, “A Raisin in the Sun” during class, I was actually very interested and overall had a great experience. The movie was very easy to comprehend and the film gave different perspectives of the family which I thought was done very effectively. I felt bad for the grandma because she had…

In the movie “35 and Ticking”, four friends are trying to find their way to the lives they promised they would get by age 45. The friends have always dreamed of their “perfect family” , being married, with children. Cleavon is single, and he “works” for the sperm bank, and isn’t worried about finding love,…

I’ve seen this movie so many times. It is the movie that defines all other movies after it was made. However, my favorite Orson Welles movie is Touch of Evil. Part of me thinks this movie is just a metaphor that money can’t buy happiness. Example is when Kane so eloquently states, “I always gagged…

In the movie “Taken,” seventeen year-old Kim (Maggie Grace) is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson). Bryan is a retired agent who leaves the Central Intelligence Agency to live nearer to Kim in California; it’s an attempt to make up for the time he lost while he was away for…

In the Sugar Cane Alley, everybody including the kids do terrible physical labor in the sugar fields, with only one way out: Education. The workers’ pay is very hard to live off of, and there is almost no other options for work for them. Only the smartest would go to work in the city. The…

This is a 1998 American film. It was written by Robert Rodat and directed by Steven Spielberg (Rodat, 1998). In this film, there were soldiers who had been assigned to find Ryan and take him back home. They had all the capacities to do the assignments themselves. The staff’s Army Chief assigned them the mission…